SCAJ unanimously elects Lynn as president

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A veteran lawyer with a North Charleston-based firm has been elected to lead the South Carolina Association for Justice.

The vote for Sydney Lynn at the group’s reason annual meeting in Hilton Head was unanimous, a release from the association says. She leads the professional group with more than 1,400 members for its 2024-25 program year.

“Our legal system is under attack by well-funded groups who want to increase profits on the backs of innocent victims,” Lynn said in the release. “At the end of the day, the policy debate we face is about accountability. We simply cannot allow people or companies with deep pockets to escape being held responsible when their reckless behavior harms others.”

Lynn earned her undergraduate degree from the University of South Carolina at Aiken and her Juris Doctor in 2007 from Charleston School of Law. She practices personal injury and workers compensation law with the Joye Law Firm and led the opening of its Columbia office in 2016, a news release from the firm says.

In addition to the association, her professional memberships include the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina, Injured Workers’ Advocates and the South Carolina Bar. In court, she has earned multiple seven-figure settlements and verdicts, the law firm release says.

“Sydney brings passion to everything she does,” Ken Harrell, the firm’s managing partner, said in the release. “She truly gets immense joy from helping people in need get their lives back on track.”

In addition to Lynn, the association elected the following officers:

• Ashley White Creech, of McGowan, Hood, Felder & Phillips, as president-elect.
• Kevin Dean, of Motley Rice, as vice president.
• Bakari Sellers, of Strom Law Firm, as secretary-treasurer.